4 Non- Lean Habits Every Manager Should Stop Doing Today

If you know that your non – lean habits aren’t bringing the best possible results to you and your endeavours, why cling on to them? Habits don’t only affect performance and productivity, but also your happiness. We will give some examples of this soon. If you truly value efficiency, you would do anything (yes, anything) that it takes to break your non-lean habits. After all, it’s all for the best, right? Sure, it won’t be easy. Habits that are deeply ingrained are quite difficult to break. However, it is possible and putting in the effort goes a long way.

Your alertness be higher throughout the day, enabling you to be more insightful and observant of your work, surroundings, and operations.

Listen to what your team has to say

Having a higher position as the team manager doesn’t give you the right to overlook and disregard the suggestions of those “lower” than you.

In fact, it is your duty to frequently and thoroughly consider any suggestions coming in from the workforce and use scientific management to determine whether the idea is good or not.

Listening to your team, testing out their suggestions within specific sectors of the company and deciding whether the process should be automatised to the entire company is a classic tenet of lean management introduced in 1911 by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his work Principles of Scientific Management.

Take away

Non-lean habits can creep up at you from multiple directions and impact you on both interpersonal and intrapersonal levels.

What we have covered are common areas for improvement that you can immediately begin working on and see impactful results.

Thanks to the advent of smartphones, there is a constant risk of being distracted and losing focus. However, being aware of the repercussions is the beginning of change.

And, remember: non-lean habits can exist outside of the workplace (such as at home) and then influence your performance on-site. You really need to assess each little nook and cranny of your life in order to identify where those non-lean habits are hiding and lurking.

Lastly, always keep an ear open and listen to your team. You never know when the next great suggestion may pop-up unannounced.

Non-lean habits exist everywhere, but they can be stopped. Luckily, change is a natural part of life that can be embraced as soon as you decide that that’s what you want.

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